Rooms and Pillars

A diner in Northeastern Pennsylvania is bustling for breakfast on a rainy day, Saturday, November 17, 2007. We get to know the quirky customers and find out some of their stories. One of the waitresses, Cora, is separated from her husband William, but is having second thoughts about it. She discovers she is pregnant early in the story, but doesn't tell him. William is related to a coal miner who died in the Knox Coal Mining Disaster of 1959. William wishes he was more of a hero like his grandfather. Suddenly, he has that chance...